[ANN][LBRY] Open, User-Controlled, and Decentralized Content Marketplace/YouTube

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Hello BitcoinTalk, Meet LBRY Officially!
LBRY, an open source, and community-driven digital content marketplace (think BitTorrent + Bitcoin), is officially launching our ANN thread on BitcoinTalk with the release of our protocol specification (https://lbry.tech/spec) and technical resource site at https://lbry.tech. See our blog post for the breakdown: https://lbry.com/news/lbrytech. We’ve been in Production, with a working app/protocol since June 2016, so we are in no way a new project or some scam! Unlike most blockchain companies, we did no ICO, no token sales to VCs, and have spent zero energy hyping or pumping the price of our coin. We provide full transparency of our premine at https://lbry.com/credit-reports. Meet the team here: https://lbry.com/team

We are currently supported on Desktop/Android and have a web presence through https://spee.ch. In the first half of 2019, we’ll be launching a web-based version of LBRY as well. Content you ask? We’ve got tons of it on our network (over 750K published items) ranging from movies, videos, images, games, documents and more! We have content from top creators on YouTube (https://lbry.com/youtubers) and even have a major movie studio publishing films like Howl (lbry://howl), starring James Franco, and It's a Disaster (lbry://itsadisaster), starring David Cross!

You can see our previous unofficial post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1541268.new#new. We will be using this thread to post updates from the LBRY team, address questions/concerns/bugs, and get feedback from the BCT community on what they feel is important for LBRY to be successful as a media sharing platform. Want to chat with us in real time? You can find us on Discord at https://chat.lbry.com

Want to skip the rest and get right into it, download our Desktop/Android app here: https://lbry.com/get. In order to earn LBRY rewards, users do need to be verified via one of three methods - phone, credit card, or chat.

Want to see what’s coming in 2019, check out our roadmap: https://lbry.com/roadmap

Want to get involved? Refer a friend via your referral URL/email (see Invites in Desktop app) or get your favorite creator to sync their YouTube channel: https://lbry.com/youtube. Have an awesome idea in mind, reach out to us at https://lbry.fund

Looking for assistance? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions at https://lbry.com/faq.

What is LBRY?
LBRY is a protocol providing a fully decentralized network for the discovery, distribution, and payment of digital content (or any data). The LBRY blockchain provides a global namespace and database of content available on the network including searchable content metadata, signed publisher identities, rights, and access rules. Included in the metadata is a pointer to a decentralized data network like BitTorrent. The blockchain also provides publisher identities, human-friendly URLs (e.g. lbry://@MinutePhysics/magnetic-levitation), and a payment mechanism. LBRY in 100 seconds: https://spee.ch/@lbry:3f/LBRY-in-100-Seconds

Download the LBRY app for Desktop or Android https://lbry.com/get
Download the CLI interface and SDK https://github.com/lbryio/lbry/releases
Download Full LBRY Blockchain Client https://github.com/lbryio/lbrycrd/releases
LBRY Block Explorer https://explorer.lbry.com

Important Frequently Asked Questions
LBRY Introduction https://lbry.com/faq/what-is-lbry
LBRY Desktop App Basics https://lbry.io/faq/lbry-basics
LBRY URL Naming Details https://lbry.com/faq/naming
Failed Startup Troubleshooting https://lbry.com/faq/startup-troubleshooting
Backing up Wallet https://lbry.com/faq/how-to-backup-wallet
Log Files https://lbry.comfaq/how-to-find-lbry-log-file
Directories https://lbry.com/faq/lbry-directories
Publishing Basics https://lbry.com/faq/how-to-publish
Referrals/Invites https://lbry.com/faq/referrals
Content Policy https://lbry.com/faq/content
DMCA https://lbry.com/faq/dmca
Changing in-app Email https://lbry.com/faq/how-to-change-email
SDK Custom Settings https://lbry.tech/resources/daemon-settings

LBRY Rewards - LBC for using the app!
In order to earn LBRY rewards, users do need to be verified via one of three methods - phone, credit card, or chat. Users can earn LBC weekly via featured content, as well as by publishing, creating a channel, subscribing, downloading, inviting other users and much more!

Decentralized Youtube + more
LBRY is a community-controlled alternative to censorious, rent-extracting platforms like YouTube or Apple’s store. You are likely already familiar with the countless controversies over videos being demonetized for containing content unfriendly to advertisers or simply being contrary to the political sentiment de jour. Even more important than demonetization, YouTube takes 45+% of the revenue earned by creators. Does that seem the right amount to simply move a file from place A to place B? With LBRY, creators receive 100% of the price they choose and those rules cannot be changed without community consensus. Know a creator you’d like to see on LBRY, send them over to https://lbry.com/youtube!

Earn With Youtube Sync
LBRY provides a syncing program for YouTubers. YouTube creators can keep their content synced with the LBRY network and earn crypto with no extra work. Rewards are based on total number of YouTube subscribers and are paid yearly. More at https://lbry.com/youtube.

Spee.ch - Web Presence for LBRY
spee.ch is an Imgur or Streamable-like web-app that reads and writes from the LBRY network. Anyone can now host and hotlink images permanently on LBRY through spee.ch Share memes, videos and animated gif easily with spee.ch fast and quick upload and publish. LBRY is committed to free speech and fights vigorously for online freedoms. Any free content you can access on URLs like lbry://jiggytom, you can find on spee.ch at https://spee.ch/jiggytom.

Spee.ch has also been designed to be configurable and self-hostable (see https://github.com/lbryio/spee.ch). So it’s possible to set up your own spee.ch instance and restrict who can publish and/or only render your channel or a subset of channels. This comes with the added benefit that it stores your content on a decentralized network of computers -- the LBRY network. Your assets are stored in multiple locations without a single point of failure.

LBRY will be releasing a fully-featured web-app that matches the functionality of the desktop app (https://lbry.com/get) in the first half of this year. You can sign up at https://lbry.tv

File Types on LBRY?
The LBRY protocol supports any type of digital file and currently, the Desktop app can open many formats directly inside the viewer. This includes videos (H264 support currently), images, GIFs, audio (mp3s/wav/flac), documents (txt, json, csv, pdf), 3d files (STL), and games (LBRY format), Otherwise, the content can always be download locally and opened externally.

Downloading Content
Currently, the default mode of viewing content on LBRY is by downloading it. In the future, we will offer streaming support for video/audio with the option to save locally. By downloading the content and leaving LBRY open, you help share it as well and strengthen the network. Becoming a seed does require your ports to be opened (3333 TCP / 4444 UDP)

Blockchain Specifications
Explorer, Inflation Chart, Rich List: https://explorer.lbry.com/stats
2.5 Minute Blocktime https://lbry.com/faq/block-rewards
LBRY POW https://lbry.tech/resources/consensus
Decreasing PoW Reward over 20 years https://explorer.lbry.com/stats
2MB Blocksize and ~4KB Metadata size

Mining
Most mining for LBRY is performed via specialized ASIC and FPGA machines. GPU mining may be viable, but unlikely to be profitable at this time. See https://lbry.com/faq/mining-credits or the #mining channel on https://chat.lbry.com for more information.

Mining hash breakdown: https://miningpoolstats.stream/lbry

Funding for Community Projects
Have an idea for something awesome to build on LBRY, a way to promote the platform, create communities, or want to create exclusive content? Check out https://lbry.fund for more details about the process. We are giving away tons of credits to projects that help us grow the LBRY ecosystem.

Roadmap
We maintain a roadmap / plan of what we aim to accomplish throughout the year. Check out https://lbry.com/roadmap for more details on what’s currently on the horizon!

Development and Community Updates
We release regular community and development updates regarding the progress of various applications, the protocol, blockchain, community initiative/happenings and much more! Check out https://lbry.com/news/category/community-update to view the blog posts.

Help us Build
Are you a developer and interested in helping us build out LBRY? Check out https://lbry.tech/contribute to see where your skillset can be most helpful. We grant LBC as appreciation for your time and effort. You can grab some extra LBC for testing from our developer program at https://lbry.tech/developer-program

LBRY on Hardware Devices
Currently LBRY is supported on the Ledger via manual install and 3rd part client. See https://github.com/tzarebczan/ledger-app-btc/blob/lbry-readme/README.md for details

Contact Us
LBRY on Github:
https://github.com/lbryio

Official Websites:
https://lbry.com/
https://spee.ch
https://lbry.tech
https://lbry.com
https://lbry.org
https://lbry.fund
https://lbry.tv

Email us:
hello@lbry.com

Chat with us:
https://chat.lbry.com/

LBRY on Reddit:
https://reddit.com/r/lbry

LBRY on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lbryio

LBRY of Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lbryio

LBRY on Telegram:
https://t.me/lbryofficial

See the LBRY team:
https://lbry.com/team